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NVIDIA UNVEILS GEFORCE FX GPU

Various gaming luminaries spout praise as nVidia reveals its GeForce FX GPU. Be bowled over by the images inside

18:00 The International Hotel, Mayfair, London was a buzz of technology today as nVidia lifted the lid on its next graphical powerhouse, the GeForce FX GPU, today. Boasting some crazy specs, the piece of hardware can deliver cinematic-quality graphics and special effects in real-time. Certainly, gaming luminaries seem impressed.
Real-time cinematic-quality graphics and special effects will allow developers to create incredible visuals and introduce real character emotion into games - just take a look at some of the screenshots for proof. Pretty amazing, huh?

Want ridiculous 3D graphics power? Check out some of these specs:

the world's first 500MHz GPU is able to compute 375 million programmable vertices per second; 4 billion pixels per second; and 16 billion AA samples per second
with the world's first 1Ghz DDR2 memories, GeForce FX features the fastest frame buffer ever designed
complete support for AGP8X and NVIDIA patent pending Intellisample(tm) technology ensures developers are able to create scenes of unrivalled beauty at unmatched speeds
The new nVidia GPU is based on the company's CineFX architecture, with the CineFX engine implementing both OpenGL and DirectX9.0 specifications. What this all basically means is that games fully utilising the features will look s***-hot.
Many of the leading lights in the PC game development world agree:

Mark Rein, Epic Games: "The nVidia GeForce FX GPU takes graphics experiences to a whole new level."
Gabe Newell, Valve Software: "The GeForce FX GPU is incredibly fast... Game developers are going to have to look to movie quality production values just to absorb all of the horsepower that NVIDIA is giving us."

Start saving those pennies people.

Well i will be definitely be getting this with my new comp no need for a upgrade for a while i think after this. lol my god

hmmm i wonder UT2k's Fps on a Athlon 3000 XP or whatever itll be called o_O

It is. If you look at your benchmark scores on UT2K3, it's more than likely your CPU that's bottlenecking. You can tell because the results are very consistent - mine are within 0.001fps of each other on consecutive benchmarks. Graphics cards are a lot less stable, about 0.2fps in my experience.

Plus the fact decreasing the res doesn't make a damn bit of difference :)

of course i heard its a CPU eater.

On the subject of that, this card won't help most people's UT2K3 FPSs you know.

ugh mad ppl! that is one huge article.............
Oh well looks crazy, but fast of course depends when it is out its not like cpus luckily...... a new one everyone few weeks.

Forgot to mention: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzkwLDE=

I. Need. This. Card,

Looks like it won't be too happy about me attaching a Zalman to it though. What a shame.

hopefully mean a price drop in the geforce 4 ti's if we're lucky :p

He speaks the truth. Mark that is. Anyway, these are still only paper specs, I have no doubt that it will be more powerful than the r9700 pro (already surpassed the ti4600), but I'm waiting to see some real life benchmarks, other than those Doom3 framerates nVidia claim..

It'll still be over £350 at launch, I'm guessing..

Doubt many ready built PC's will be provided with the card for a while if you ask me. Probably be better to build your own one and incorporate the card into whatever you're looking at.